Haifa Zangana

"The kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, the British-Iraqi aid worker, is shocking but not surprising. We have come to accept that the same thing might happen to any of our family or friends. In fact, it already has happened to my dearest friend Nada." Kidnapping and killing is a daily reality in Iraq, but the atrocities go unrecorded and the dead are unnamed in the West, argues Haifa Zangana.